IMG_MUAMBA
From July 13th 2026 — July 13th, 2027
IMG_MUAMBA is an expanding digital archive composed of thousands of images rephotographed from Brazilian news websites. The research begins with photographs produced in response to immediate circumstances, intended to inform, document, or bear witness to events and, often, to disappear amid the continuous flow of news updates. Collected, cropped, and classified, these images leave their original contexts and become part of an archive organized through affinities, recurrences, and chance encounters. The project investigates the circulation and economic life of vernacular images, observing how they move across platforms, devices, and storage systems. The name comes from the word muamba, derived from the Kimbundu muhamba, meaning a basket or container used to transport goods. IMG_MUAMBA also operates as such a basket: a depot where images arrive, are stored, reorganized, and put back into circulation. The archive takes on different forms, including random sequences, categories, image combinations, and fragments of text, functioning simultaneously as a collection, a montage system, and an infrastructure for new works.
From July 13th 2026 — July 13th, 2027
IMG_MUAMBA is an expanding digital archive composed of thousands of images rephotographed from Brazilian news websites. The research begins with photographs produced in response to immediate circumstances, intended to inform, document, or bear witness to events and, often, to disappear amid the continuous flow of news updates. Collected, cropped, and classified, these images leave their original contexts and become part of an archive organized through affinities, recurrences, and chance encounters. The project investigates the circulation and economic life of vernacular images, observing how they move across platforms, devices, and storage systems. The name comes from the word muamba, derived from the Kimbundu muhamba, meaning a basket or container used to transport goods. IMG_MUAMBA also operates as such a basket: a depot where images arrive, are stored, reorganized, and put back into circulation. The archive takes on different forms, including random sequences, categories, image combinations, and fragments of text, functioning simultaneously as a collection, a montage system, and an infrastructure for new works.
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FREEPORT_WORKSHOP
A free zone or "freeport" is an isolated and delimited region within a country, usually located in or near a port, where national or foreign goods enter without being subject to normal customs tariffs. In this workshop, we propose the creation of a free zone for the appropriation of images, without being subject to copyright or intellectual property issues, for the creation of a special publication using a collection of images presented at the opening of the workshop. The first edition of the workshop took place during the closing of the aí residency program.
VVVOYEUR : REDUX
From June 11 — August 31, 2023
To celebrate the release of the book VVVoyeur, we host a video cut of over two hours in length compiling the two seasons of the process that led to the book. VVVoyeur is a video series of virtual travels that took place in an alternate version of Google Street View between 2021 and 2022. The VVVoyeur photobook is constructed through a selection of images taken from each of the twenty episodes that make up the project. From these trips we navigate through the controversies surrounding the capture of images for a geolocation service, and especially, how ordinary people, amateurs deal with the possibility of recording their community, their surroundings, their personal landscapes. In VVVoyeur we are transported inside supermarkets, offices, dilapidated schools, to the top of broadcast antennas, to family reunions. We are the witnesses to the captured moments, we are complicit in the theft of these images.
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CONTRETEMPS OR ATTEMPTS TO EXHAUST A PLACE IN PARIS
50m40s, 1920x1080px, HD video, sound, color
Inspired by the book written by Georges Perec, this film-diary was assembled as a walk, a train ride, a compilation of observations and references of the process developed during residency at Cité internationale des arts, between January and March 2020, which originated the book Contretemps published by zero-Editions in 2021. By being an extension of this project, it can only be accessed through the QR Code present in the book published or any other publication from this series.
Inspired by the book written by Georges Perec, this film-diary was assembled as a walk, a train ride, a compilation of observations and references of the process developed during residency at Cité internationale des arts, between January and March 2020, which originated the book Contretemps published by zero-Editions in 2021. By being an extension of this project, it can only be accessed through the QR Code present in the book published or any other publication from this series.
ENTRECORTES
Entrecortes is an archive, a collection of images gathered and appropriated from Brazilian news websites between 2018-2019; precarious and disposable images that come back to life within this environment, where the rhythm is defined by the speed of the click, by the destinations that each of the images hides. An experience that takes place in the tension of sounds and images, so Entrecortes is also an exercise in montage. Entrecortes is a digital installationformed by 40 “rooms”, where explosions, landslides, murders, accidents, global tensions, local crises, tragic events, visions and fragments of reality are stacked, overlapped, creating new senses and temporalities, within a non-linear path.